Artists and designer Michael Jantzen has sent us his latest conceptual building design, The Black Hole Research Center. – previously Project Description from Michael Jantzen: The Black Hole Research Center is a conceptual design proposal for a large, solar powered building designed to be... View full entry
Along the Cartagena waterfront, architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano light up an architectural antidote to the gloom of the Spanish real estate crisis — domusweb.it
Gorgeous new project in Spain, as reported by Mario Ballesteros for Domus. View full entry
The truth I’m trying to present is one about site-specific forgetting. If our history is a history of forgetting how to remember the past, as I am arguing, then the city of Detroit is the engine of our conflicted deliverance. It’s the machinery we’ve used for particular acts of forgetting, each connected to the place and time where the forgetting got done. — Places Journal
This week on Places, two features by Detroit residents contextualize the city's ruins. In "The Forgetting Machine: Notes Toward a History of Detroit," Jerry Herron reflects on the decline of Hudson's and the improbable hopefulness of the retrofitted car park in the Michigan theater. He critiques... View full entry
Below are the 11 most visited Projects during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here. 1. Urban Interiorites 2. Colorado House 3. Beijing House II 4. Tex-Tonic House 1 5. The American Institute of Steel Reclamation 6. Long Island House 7. Fonderie Center 8. Sunset... View full entry
Istanbul’s evocative skyline is set to be capped by a new peak, as architects on Wednesday unveiled plans to build a tower almost 300 meters high, which will rival the highest buildings in Europe.
Scotland-based architectural firm RMJM’s office in Dubai said that it received planning approval for “Metropol Istanbul,” a vast 500,000 square meter project, which includes three towers, a 30,000 square meter public shopping mall, offices and luxury apartments.
— blogs.wsj.com
In response to the demolition of several famous buildings, the City Council approves rules for tearing down or altering structures older than 45 years and designed by important architects. It also establishes a Cultural Heritage Commission. — latimes.com
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the Gehry Residence in Santa Monica, California for the 2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award. [...]
A seemingly ad hoc collection of raw, workmanlike materials wrapped around an unassuming two-story clapboard bungalow, Frank Gehry’s, FAIA, home for his wife, Berta, and two sons found a literal, but unexpected, answer to the question of neighborhood context, and used it to forever re-shape the formal and material boundaries of architecture.
— bustler.net
Czech firm CHYBIK+KRISTOF Associated Architects have shared with us their schematic design for the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic. The project team also included Ivan Ruller and Ondrej Stehlik. — bustler.net
Reviving the Maida Vale model is often talked about but rarely done, and although the athletes' village version hasn't quite captured the lushness and generosity of the originals, it is at least there. It is also welcome that there is a degree of calm to the buildings, compared to the frenzied gesticulations, the visual shouts of "buy me, buy me" that typify most works of regeneration. — Guardian
Rowan Moore visits the 2012 Olympic Village in London. The now athlete and later, mix of affordable and for profit, mass housing estate, is a massive go at post-Olympic regeneration. The village features design and planning work by the likes of Fletcher Priest, Arup and West 8 and he acknowledges... View full entry
It is no design flaw: encapsulated within the walls and ceiling panels is a gel that solidifies at night and melts with the warmth of the day. Known as a phase change material (PCM), the gel will help reduce the amount of energy needed to cool office space in the building - scheduled to house the molecular engineering department when completed this month - by a whopping 98 per cent. — newscientist.com
Salon2 has shared with us their completed 400m2 architectural installation on the façade of Yapı Kredi Bank Culture Building at Galatasaray Square in İstanbul. The first stage in the Augmented Structures project with the Augmented Structures v1.1: Acoustic Formations... View full entry
What can you accomplish in 360 hours?
The Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, has yet attempted another impossible feat, building a 30-story tall hotel prototype in 360 hours, after building a 15-story building in a week earlier in 2011.
— youtube.com
“There needs to be intensification,” argues architect Bruce Kuwabara. “What we have to think about are ways to create a vertical urban life that’s livable. It isn’t just about the view. It has to be about how buildings work at the base and how they contribute to the public realm.” — thestar.com
Below are the 11 most visited Firm Profiles during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here. 1. 1100 Architect 2. Shlemmer Algaze Associates 3. Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP 4. Diller Scofidio + Renfro 5. Remedios Studio 6. MAD 7. Belmont Freeman... View full entry
Below are the 11 most visited People Profiles during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here. 1. Orhan Ayyüce 2. Donna Sink 3. Amy Leedham 4. Michael Villegas 5. Carolyn Ng 6. Steven Ward 7. Virginia Melnyk 8. Tim Do 9. J. James R. 10. Marco Rocha 11. Adam... View full entry